Who will unite, protect Nigerians?

Today, October 1, 2025, is Nigeria’s 65th day arsenic an autarkic nation. In reality, Nigeria, which was amalgamated connected January 1, 1914 by joining the Southern and Northern Protectorates with the Colony of Lagos, is precisely 111 years and 10 months old.

Nigeria’s top problem, historically, is deficiency of unity. The British assemblage authorities, with the consent of the indigenous Nigerian delegates to the pre-independence talks successful London and Ibadan, agreed that the Federal structure, which was introduced successful 1951 and indigenised successful 1954, was the champion strategy to transportation our ethnic, spiritual and taste diversities into the future.

For a diverseness specified arsenic ours to relation properly, the instauration indispensable beryllium solidly built connected equity, a communal consciousness of belonging and unified aspirations. Unfortunately, the British deliberately foisted an unequal Federalism. The North was fixed the lion’s stock successful landmass and arguable bulk stakes successful colonisation and governmental practice astatine the Centre.

On the affirmative side, the aggravated rivalries that followed the British exit connected October 1, 1960, resulted successful precise accelerated economic, acquisition and infrastructural developments among the Regions. On the antagonistic side, however, the conflict for domination by each Region and their large taste agglomerations – Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba – coupled with the struggles of the Minorities nether them, plunged the state into crises and civilian warfare hardly six years aft independence.

The subject which replaced the civilians foisted a centralised Federalism that capitalised connected the lipid roar of the 1970s to germinate the existent syndrome of dependency of the federating units connected the Centre. The federating units which were erstwhile the workshops wherever the nation’s wealthiness was produced, changed to the existent depletion mode.

With the accelerated detonation of our colonisation from 45 cardinal successful 1960 to astir 230 cardinal today, Nigeria has since go officially the “poverty superior of the world” with implicit 20 cardinal retired of schoolhouse children.

Our leaders weaponised our diverseness for selfish gain. 

Today, Nigerians freely commercialized communal taste hatred connected the societal media, with obscene taste profiling. Also, the State has go truthful anemic that equipped overseas and indigenous criminals person taken implicit our forests, levying wide insecurity connected the nation, with our equipped forces hardly capable to cope.

To forestall authorities collapse, different circular of taste bloodshed and the destiny bedevilling Sudan today, Nigerians indispensable rethink their attitudes to Nigeria. We indispensable instrumentality powerfulness to the radical to alteration them enactment successful flushing retired agents of insecurity, electing leaders of their prime and reignite productivity.

Nigeria tin beryllium salvaged. It requires dependable leadership. With visionary and patriotic leadership, the agelong elusive Nigerian Dream is inactive achievable.

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